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If so, this might be of interest to you. I saw it posted on (URL) Lambda the Ultimate>: (URL) The first article is entitled "A Recipe for controlling Lego using Lava." If you're not familiar with the (URL) Lava Hardware Description Language>, it's a (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB
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(...) I've been working on a .NET-based class (in C#) to communicate with the Control Lab. It will eventually be a miniature API providing methods to poll sensors and change output port values. It will be kind of like how leJOS does things, except (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB
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I have Robolab 2.5.4 so I guess I'll be using that. I still need to find out what other apps there are (Windows and Linux) that I might use as an alternative. linmix (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB
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(...) I do not have a Control Lab but I do have two USB->Serial converters and have tested them on a variety of devices at work and have not had any issues yet. These come with device drivers that create serial ports on your machine. As long as the (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Wishlist for next pbLua Beta
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(...) Hi Ralph, the hardware is ready to take off :D (URL) are your plans to release Beta-4-Preview with improved I2C-Support ? The world wants to use pbLua and not NXT-G or other stuff :-D One real world scenario is "helping handicaped blind guys". (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Hi, it was my 5 years old daughter, who is escaping from running NXT :-D. The older one (and me) is playing the solo guitar at the background :-) It makes us happy that you enjoy the simple video of family-home-fun with Lego. Yes, it it hard (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Robo Quad - Stage Six
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(...) TY, If you understand the principles, it is a matter of just having the Lego, and the drive to build it. IMHO. Hopefuly learn a few things along the way. (...) I can only test it 12 inches in either direction at a time, uh confines of my desk. (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) fun avoiding it :-). How often does the front lip hit the ground, or does it just clear (it's hard to tel from the video)? And from my schlecht Deutsch, yes, it does look ahrd to control or stop, and i'll be curious to see it under autonomous (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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Very amazing work Eric. There are not many builders who can make articulated walking (or roller scating) robots that work- especially at that scale. This one appears very complex and large. What does your cat think of it? Have you ever taken one of (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) Enjoy the simple NXTOffRoad movie :D (URL) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Classroom experiments gone awry
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(...) simple NXT-G programming. Of course, it's most rewarding when the simplest of concepts creates an "Aha!" moment. It's kind of fun using artificial intelligence to bring out the real thing! (19 years ago, 29-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) You have the NXT record it for you, perferable in a comma-delimited text file, which you can then import and open right in Excel. Your own home-grown datalog, with a data arrangement you specify. Just use file operations: (URL) other (...) (19 years ago, 29-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) I placed a dollar bill with one corner of it pinned under a chair leg. The challenge was to start from the spot and circle around the outside of the legs. Whichever team can do it in less than two tries claims the dollar. I think my dollar is (...) (19 years ago, 29-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Steering under NXT-G is... not exactly intuitive. I tried some experiments a whle back, but I never even tried to play with the steering slider because I had no patience for rough approximations (like trying to see if I had moved the slider (...) (19 years ago, 29-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NBC/NXC beta news
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(...) I keep forgetting the not-quite part of your language is an attempt to map operations directly onto the underlying VM. I was hoping to avoid rewriting code but now realize that making all elements of this structure top-level elements will (...) (19 years ago, 29-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NBC arrays
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Is there some more detailed (and lower-level) description of how the arrays work in NBC, please? Something that would complement the description in the manual? This is how I see the arrays in NBC/standard firmware: * a compiled program works with (...) (19 years ago, 29-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NBC/NXC beta news
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(...) Sorry for not getting back with you sooner about this bug, Rosco. Life comes at you fast, as they say. :-) I investigated this problem today and it looks like I've got it fixed. There were several bugs going on in NBC which were causing the (...) (19 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Robo Quad - Stage Six
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Robo Quad - Stage Six - Work in progress - Head and neck construction. Vision Command Sensor Cameras. Custom eye lights and Ultrasonic sensor by Hitechnic. Neck up/down and Head left/right motion use RC Racer style motors. Ready for Stage Seven. (...) (19 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, FTX) !!
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| | NXTasy challenge no. 2
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I've postponed the deadline on NXTasy.org challenge no. 2 till June 1st. Also, detailed rules and prizes were published here: (URL) urge the (advanced) readers of Lugnet to contribute to this challenge. I think it's important that MDP/MCP members (...) (19 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: Classroom experiments gone awry
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Your results are not at all what I intuitively expect. From your previous posts, I think the "turn ratio" settings you've used range from 0 to +100 in steps of 10. The following table is what I expected. Turn Inner Expected Observed Ratio Wheel (...) (19 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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